Dr
Sarah
Ren

PhD

School of Medicine and Population Health

Research Fellow in Statistics

sarah.ren@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 0873

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Dr Sarah Ren
School of Medicine and Population Health

Regent Court (ScHARR)
30 Regent Street

Sheffield

S1 4DA

Profile

I joined SCHARR in 2022 as a Research Associate in Statistics and am a member of SCHARR-TAG, an external assessment group supporting NICE technology appraisals. My work involves critically appraising the statistical methods used in NICE health technology assessment (HTA) submissions, as well as developing and conducting meta-analyses.

My research interests are centred around statistical methods for evidence synthesis and HTA. These include population-adjusted indirect comparisons, meta-analysis, diagnostic methods, survival analysis, Bayesian statistics, and social network analysis.

Before joining SCHARR, I spent six years researching social networks and graphical models as a statistician. This work provided me with a broad statistical foundation and experience across a wide range of methods, including Bayesian statistics, nonparametric methods, and optimisation.

I hold an NIHR Development and Skills Enhancement (DSE) award, which supports my work on developing statistical methods to strengthen evidence synthesis and decision-making in HTA.

Qualifications

PhD in Statistics (University of Kent)

Research interests

•        Population-adjusted indirect comparisons
•        Meta-analysis
•        Comparative effectiveness research
•        Survival analysis
•        Bayesian hierarchical modelling
•        Social network analysis and graphical models

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Research group

•        SCHARR Technology Assessment group (TAG)
•        Sheffield Evidence Network for Screening Synthesis (SENSS)

Grants

•        NIHR Development and Skills Enhancement (DSE) award, 2026-2028, Principal investigator
•        Sheffield Evidence Network for Screening Synthesis (SENSS), 2025-2030, Co-investigator
•        Lilly Research Award Program (LRAP), 2024-2026
•        NIHR Technology Assessment Reviews (TARs), 2022-2027

Teaching interests

•        Evidence synthesis
•        Survival analysis

Professional activities and memberships

International Society for Clinical Biostatistics (ISCB)